Nearly 100-year-old veterans parachute back to Normandy in 75 years

Seventy - five years ago, they jumped into the unknown, quietly landing in the fields of Normandy without knowing what horrors lay ahead.

Now in their 90 ' s, two D-Day veterans made the same parachute landing yesterday, this time receiving applause as part of the spectacle of red boys with flags and in front of a kind crowd.

Harry Read was 20 years old when he left his plane in the early hours of June 6, 1944. John “Hutton was 19, and he served in the Parable Regiment of 13 Lancashire.

The second Wednesday was issued from parachutes to the tandem with the help of the British Army.

I think dancing was brilliant. He was amazing in every way. I feel good. My health and my mind are good. ” /Periscope